Quotes About Values

Don't pretend that you can just be oblivious to politics. You can't. What you never do is break your personal code. Have a code and keep it. You should never compromise what your priorities are.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.

Politics is how you live your life, not whom you vote for.

I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God than live in that palace at Washington.

Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.

The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing.

The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money.

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

Has anyone stopped to consider that we might come closer to balancing the budget if all of us simply tried to live up to the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule?

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

I had rather be right than be President.

Our politics suffers from a shortage of people who put character and country before career and personal gain.

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches they will take sandwiches.

So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.

Individualism is a denial that life has any meaning except the gratification of the ego; in politics it must end in anarchy. It is not possible for one man to be both Christian and Individualist.

I never bought a man who wasn't for sale.

Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.

They took your commandments off the schoolhouse walls, they say it's a crime to pray.

I never played politics, I was never a party girl, and I never slept with any of the producers.

Politics isn't what defines a person, and it shouldn't define a relationship. I made the mistake of letting that intrude on my relationships.